Toronto police don't have so much experience on these kinds of crimes.
ONly 4-5 such public craziness happens in that area a year. The last crazy incident before this week was the guy who took the girl hostage and 300 cops were called but the police shot him, an i say that was the best police work i ever saw!! That was last year i forgot.
Yes American police is 100 times worse Especially in rural areas. Damn it who hires some of those cops????
Originally posted by manny321
Yes American police is 100 times worse Especially in rural areas. Damn it who hires some of those cops????
a point which i bring up constantly.
i have a family member who works in an urban area. much of which is a hardcore ghetto. i refer to him as a REAL cop, you know, someone who actually puts his/her well being on the line to do their duty.
granted,*very important* just because a rural cop's job isnt dangerous, it doesnt make them a fraud, just lucky, and they should be thankful. but when some of these a$$holes strut their stuff and act all hardcore like they've been to hell and back, i have to laugh. if they ever saw real action on the street they would piss their pants, curl up into a ball and cry for mommy, yet they walk so tall when they bust kids for drinking or smoking a joint, and look how those kids happen to 'fall down the stairs'.
thats why i propose an exchange program for police. take all these hardcore jagoffs from east bumblef**k and send them to keep peace in the city, and take all the city cops and let them patrol farmland and basically have a nice vacation. one would get a deserved rest while the other would get a lesson on what it is to be a cop.
but with that aside, and back to topic, i dont think these cops were bad. perhaps they just never encountered such a situation before, and came up with the best on-the-spot solution they could. thank god it worked. i just hope that the police force over there would review the situation and perhaps come up with a better solution for future reference.
YEAH the police in LA are mean because there faced with such dire situations.
The worst situation to Toronto police faced when the man took a girl hostage last year and the whole city stoped and watched and 300 cops were called. It shocked the city and everyone thought it was the end of Toronto the good.
Originally posted by manny321
Come on when i was in LA for a month in the 90d's there were atleast
2-3 wacky things a week. Damn it the america police is violent. Look at the cause of LA riots before calling Canadian police messed.
The causes of the LA riots were nothing but a bunch thugs looking for an excuse to sack and steal from businesses and shops. They used the excuse of the king beating to destroy commercial areas. The cops that beat up King were pigs. The cops that beat up the looters were good cops.
Originally posted by manny321
YEAH the police in LA are mean because there faced with such dire situations.
The worst situation to Toronto police faced when the man took a girl hostage last year and the whole city stoped and watched and 300 cops were called. It shocked the city and everyone thought it was the end of Toronto the good.
You continue to show absolutely no concept of the city that you live in. You are unaware of alot of the situations that the metro police face because often it is kept out of the press in order that things occur with leess fanfare (and therefore less danger). Toronto cops don't have to deal with the press as much as their american metropolis counterparts. However when the press finally gets through it's often blown way out of proportion.
The incident where the sniper took out the hostage taker in front of Union Station didn't make anyone think that "it was the end of Toronto the good". Actually you are the only person that I have seen doing this.
Oh come on, I'm sure these cops are quite experienced at dealing with lunatics. I've never been to Canada so I can't say for sure but personally I find all this "goody-two-shoes" image that comes with the country must be exagerrated. Regaurdless of what country it's in, Toronto is a huge city, and I'm sure the cops there are faced with this kind of stuff all the time. A maniac with a knife really isn't all that uncommon.
Perhaps hitting the guy with the car was a tad too far, but if you ask me, people are too lenient with criminals nowadays....
Afro Cheese> Most Canadians are friendly, but we have @ssholes just like every other country......but other countries paint up this "goody-too-shoes" image of us because we are supposedly such a great contributor to the World Stage......
That's called rich people getting special treatment.
Criminals don't get "special treatment" because that's sorta impossible. Special treatment when compared to who, law abiding citizens? Maybe the cops aren't as hard on them as you may think they should be, but that doesn't mean cops treat criminals better than they treat the average person.
no kharma dog, i said very seldom such public desperate acts happen like the guy who put himself on fire. Knife welding happens often i know but it only goes very public if it is on a busy street or if it is a odd ending.
Many people think Toronto crime is high but i actually say it is not. Its a fact and i read in a magazine (think it was McLean's or Canadian business) that it is low compared to the city in the prairies. KNife welding situations happen yes but not so publicly.
For a city almost 3 million 60 murders is low and the opinion of "the end of Toronto the good" is not from me but from the media and other people. So by having a low crime rate when something like the guy burning himself happens people have not seen that for a while, and think Toronto is messed. If alot of crap like this happens in a short period this idea develops. If it spaced over a year its normal but for example one i think 4-5 people got murdered in one weekend and people were saying it was a crime wave. If that happened over a month no one would care.
NOTE i think Toronto is safe other have that idea!! The idea of Toronto the good is created because it has a low crime rate for its size and has a big rep on that. When something real drastic happens people start questioing it. That why there is so much debate.
Yeah well having a low murder rate is a great thing but it doesn't mean cops in Toronto don't deal with plenty of tough shit. Besides, there is a difference between a murder rate and an overall violent crime rate. A city can have a high crime rate and a low murder rate. Just cause not that many people are actually killed in Toronto doesn't mean that Toronto cops are less experienced than American ones. I'm sure being a cop in Toronto is still a very dangerous job, as it is in any big city like that.